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Application of Computer Vision and Image Processing in Medicine

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 October 2026 | Viewed by 1238

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School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG8 1BB, UK
Interests: computer vision, applied AI in medical applications, precision in medical image analysis and diagnosis; computer-aided diagnosis; human-computer interaction

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This journal aims to highlight a wide range of interdisciplinary research and practical innovations situated at the intersection of medical science, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and biomedical engineering.

In the field of medical imaging, computer vision focuses on developing automated techniques to interpret, analyse, and extract clinically relevant insights from medical images. Leveraging advances in AI, machine learning, Big Data, and image processing, these approaches support various clinical tasks such as diagnosis, treatment planning, disease monitoring, and image-guided interventions.

The scope of the journal includes but is not limited to

  • Medical image analysis;
  • AI and deep learning applications in medical imaging;
  • Self-supervised learning techniques for medical imaging;
  • The use of transformers in medical image interpretation;
  • Multimodal medical image analysis (e.g., X-Ray, CT, MRI, PET);
  • Image quality enhancement and restoration;
  • Traditional image processing methods for preprocessing (e.g., denoising, enhancement);
  • Telemedicine and point-of-care imaging solutions;
  • Evaluation and benchmarking of imaging algorithms;
  • Ethical, regulatory, and societal considerations in AI for healthcare;
  • Responsible AI and governance of medical imaging data;
  • Image reconstruction and processing techniques;
  • Image-guided therapies and interventions;
  • Diagnostic and prognostic imaging systems;
  • Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) tools;
  • Surgical and interventional imaging technologies;
  • Image registration and multimodal data fusion;
  • Human–AI collaboration in clinical decision support
  • Generative AI for synthetic medical image creation and augmentation;
  • Large vision models (LVMs) adapted for medical imaging;
  • Synthetic data generation for training medical AI systems;
  • End-to-end AI pipelines for precision imaging

Dr. Armaghan Moemeni
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • medical imaging
  • medical image analysis
  • deep learning
  • CNN
  • transfomers
  • imaging modalities (MRI, CT, PET)
  • large vision model (LVM), self-supervised learning
  • precision imaging
  • AI for health
  • intervension
  • diagnosis
  • CAD
  • early diagnosis

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Article
Multi-Scale Attention Fusion with Lesion-Area Focus for Knowledge-Enhanced Dermoscopic Skin Lesion Classification
by Danjun Wang, Qingyang Liu, Yanrong Hu and Hongjiu Liu
Appl. Sci. 2025, 15(24), 12952; https://doi.org/10.3390/app152412952 - 9 Dec 2025
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Abstract
Skin diseases are common conditions that pose a significant threat to human health, and automated classification plays an important role in assisting clinical diagnosis. However, existing image classification approaches based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have inherent limitations. CNNs are constrained [...] Read more.
Skin diseases are common conditions that pose a significant threat to human health, and automated classification plays an important role in assisting clinical diagnosis. However, existing image classification approaches based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformers have inherent limitations. CNNs are constrained in capturing global features, whereas Transformers are less effective in modeling local details. Given the characteristics of dermoscopic images, both local and global features are equally crucial for classification tasks. To address this issue, we propose an improved Swin Transformer-based model, termed MaLafFormer, which incorporates a Modulated Fusion of Multi-scale Attention (MFMA) module and a Lesion-Area Focus (LAF) module to enhance global modeling, emphasize critical local regions, and improve lesion boundary perception. Experimental results on the ISIC2018 dataset show that MaLafFormer achieves 84.35% ± 0.56% accuracy (mean of three runs), outperforming the baseline 77.98% ± 0.34% by 6.37%, and surpasses other compared methods across multiple metrics, thereby validating its effectiveness for skin lesion classification tasks. Full article
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